From Tar Sands to Green Jobs? 

(Before It's News)

Cross-posted from Climate and Capitalism, an online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative.

Canada’s carbon emissions cannot be stabilized using plans that are acceptable to the capitalist classes and their interest in endless accumulation. An ambitious vision of ecosocialist alternatives must connect restructuring of work to wider social transformations.

• Renewable Energy: High Jobs, Little Power (inefficiency personified)
• China has been killing turtles, coral, and giant clams in the South China Sea – ‘There is no hope for many of these reefs to recover in the coming decades or centuries’
• Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity
• ‘The river is our blood.’ Standing with the Munduruku in the heart of the Amazon
• Agribusiness Interests and the USDA Scramble Organic Eggs
• Coal Faces Decline Even Without The EPA’s Carbon Rule, Report Says
• Farm and Food: The Land of Non
• Don’t Eat the Yellow Rice: The Danger of Deploying Vitamin A Golden Rice
• Climate Scientist Group Has One More Chance To Cut Ties To Anti-Science ExxonMobil
• Recent Iberian drought worst in at least three centuries